Ben Wheatley's 'Freakshift' to shoot in 2014 with American cast

Jul 19, 2013

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Ben Wheatley has revealed details on his new film Freakshift, due to start shooting in 2014.

In an interview with Digital Spy, the Kill List and Sightseers director stated that filming would begin "in the New Year," and described the upcoming picture as "an American sci-fi film, like Hill Street Blues with monsters and women cops".

"It'll be an American cast, but it's kind of an immigrant cast so they'll be Korean, Indian, Pakistani, Irish and Polish characters. It won't be a full-blown cast of Americans, it'll be people who've gone to America to live and they're first generation," he said.

Wheatley also gave details of the film's special effects and creature design, saying: "I think the creatures are going to be a mixture of CGI and prosthetics. I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

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"Each shot will have a price tag on it and you'll have to decide that upfront. I think there'll be a mixture of suit-based stuff and augmented CG on top of that."